- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know Quotes
Quotes on knowing and being known.
These quotes explore both sides of 'know' - the sharp insight of knowing an opponent's weakness in sports, and the disorienting feeling of not knowing anyone after moving to a new city. Related reading includes Always Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone does it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.
- Least
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
- Nov 07, 2020
Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard, 'Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn't know how to govern.' Gibberish!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known Boris Johnson since 2004. I wrote the first big profile about him in the American press. I've been edited by him when he ran the Spectator. I know his family.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is that we forget about the ones that don't.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020